Re: AVR32 architecture patch against Linux 2.6.18-rc1 available

Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-07T10:44:26Z

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:39 +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:58:03 +0100
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > Please add include/asm-avr32/Kbuild which lists those files which need
> > to be present in /usr/include/asm, over and above those listed in
> > asm-generic/Kbuild.asm. Then run 'make headers_install' and review the
> > exported headers to make sure they're suitable for building glibc,
> > etc.
>
> uClibc fails because it tries to grep for UTS_RELEASE in
> linux/version.h and doesn't find it because it's been moved to
> linux/utsrelease.h. I can update the script so that it checks
> linux/utsrelease.h first, but that file is not installed by
> make headers_install.

I would say that version.h should most certainly not be exposed to
userspace. utsrelease.h.. since it's exposing a string... MAYBE. But
really.. how can userspace use this at all in any useful way?

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven